Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to 1) Identify the communication modes being used by the open source community of choice 2) Describe communication characteristics and culture within the community

Materials/Environment

Internet connection and browser

Rights

Licensed CC BY-SA

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Background:

The goal of this activity is for you to become familiar with the communication modes of an open source project. For more information please see the Intro to FOSS activity page.

Directions:

Locate the IRC channel your open source project uses.
Monitor that IRC channel for one week (7 days) or until there is at least 400 lines.

Please provide the following pieces of information about your open source project: